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All I can say is Sorry, this was a mistake.
It definitely is Not An Answer, obviously I was too quick when I cleared the flag - I use keyboard shortcuts - and I misclicked, realized it, and then deleted it.
My fault, no doubt.

Yeah, that's spam. It seems to have been cleverly disguised as a legitimate question, only with two very obvious spam links in the last paragraph. Perhaps the moderator who declined your flags missed them somehow, or had fallen for the ruse.
I have removed the question and destroyed the user's account now. Indeed, it was the same user who posted the two ...

Once a flag has been resolved as either helpful, disputed or declined, the decision on that flag is final and any amount of discussion on that flag would be pointless and a waste of everybody's time.
If you want to dispute a response to one of your flags, feel free to either re-flag the post with a custom message and it'll be handled separately, or take it ...

I declined that flag, for the reasons I provided. I'm not going to delete an account of a user just because they asked a single bad question.
All users here have to start somewhere. Most start by asking questions. There are tens of thousands of users who started by asking a single question, including many of the people who will read this.
If you have ...

A few reasons:
Very Low Quality means, "This is garbage, and should be deleted by a moderator right now. There is no hope of salvation for this post."
Does this post fit that criteria?
Unequivocally no.
In fact, all the OP needs to do (or anyone else so inclined), is pose an actual question. Right now there isn't one.
The second reason is, it doesn't ...

Well part of the problem was your flag which said:
This is off-topic: It's a question about recommending a tutorial.
You shouldn't be flagging for moderator's to close questions and that's what your flag is asking. When I saw the flag, I didn't review the question in the moderator queue. I saw that flag, I declined it because we shouldn't be flagged ...

There are quite a few but here are my thoughts.
The first one you flagged as spam. There is no spam in this answer. Spam flags should be for promotional type of posts like "Hey, buy this Gucci bag", etc. Spam flags carry significant penalties to users so we are hesitant to accept these flags, especially when they don't fit.
The second one you flagged as ...

VLQ flags are first handled by the community, in the Low Quality review queue, but it here a moderator declined your flags.
The answers you flagged should just have been voted down. They are terrible answers, but they should not be deleted for that. Editing them is not going to turn them into better answers. No community involvement is going to change this.
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This question and the flags were a bit of a mess but here is what happened.
There were three flags on the post requesting that this question be migrated to Code Review. I declined flags and performed some comment clean-up telling the user to post the question on Code Review.
My reasons for declining the flags were:
I didn't think it was a great ...

That's my bad - I scanned the answer initially and saw exactly what you describe: a valid statement. So I declined the flag.
Then I read the comments and the question, and realized it was - in context - effectively nonsense. So I deleted it, after downvoting it.

Suggesting a product be used as a solution to a question isn't necessarily spam. It may be a low quality answer if it contains nothing more than a product name, as is the case here, but it's not spam. Spam would be advertising content unrelated to the question, posting the content to lots of different places, posting content that one is affiliated with, ...

If you're flagging a question because it should be closed but can't due to a bounty then it's important to include that information in the flag text. You cannot just say that the question should be closed; it's important to say that you couldn't vote to close it because it has a bounty on it, in addition to why it should be closed.

The answer can be read in two different ways.
You can't have a classname with spaces. The spaces in class="" mean you have multiple classes.
can be read as either
It doesn't matter for your current problem, but beware that you can't have a classname with spaces. The spaces in class="" mean you have multiple classes.
or
The reason it is not ...

Choosing to flag as Not an Answer can be a problem when the issue is not cut and dry. Because there is no explanation possible (except by leaving a comment under the post) it will be declined more often than not, unless it is obvious why the post was flagged. This also goes for answers that appear to answer the question. The most successful "Not an ...

While the post did ask clarifying questions, and did include a lot of information not involved in actually answering the question (i.e. informing the user of a more appropriate place to ask the question as it is off topic where it was asked) it did also actually answer the question as well, so it's not Not An Answer.
You could add a comment that the ...

It's been deleted now, but the mods may have not wanted to feed the answer to the internal spam mechanisms. They tend to be very careful about accepting spam flags. I can't view the question to confirm this, so be prepared for a mod to say otherwise.
Is a grey area that we see often in the low quality posts queue, it's usually better to do what someone else ...

If you read the description of the Very Low Quality Flag, it reads:
This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.
While that question appears to have problems, it certainly does not have severe content problems that can't be fixed with some editing. ...

Because responding to a moderator through a comment on the flag would not be a good use of the moderator's time.
In all likelihood there would be folks who would reply just because it is easy to reply. I mean, the reply box would be right there for them to use! In some cases (maybe most cases) they would just not realize that there's a significant cost to ...